Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Being new to OS/X, my first concern is a usable terminal. Here are a few tips...

iTerm2
Apparently, Apple's terminal app really sucked in a previous life. It's better now, but iTerm2 had a head start. One of the most useful features is "mouseless copy," i.e., copy by highlighting, which will be familiar to all Linux users. Other neat features include the exposé tabs and search capabilities.

Mind Blowing
The potentially awesome feature of iTerm2 is tmux integration! You can attach to tmux sessions, and have their windows treated as normal tabs. It is a killer feature. A special patched version tmux is required, and it has plenty of drawbacks, but it's new. I've used screen over tmux in the past, but this could be worth the change.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

There are so many interesting libraries and frameworks which help bootstrap and start building modern web apps. I decided to explore some of the choices for a personal project. I want this project to run on Google's App Engine, using python on the server. Everything else is negotiable.